Abstract: A method includes receiving an audio, video, or audiovisual broadcast at a first settop box, where the audio, video, or audiovisual broadcast includes digital media data encoding a program. Index data is generated based on the received digital media data encoding the program, and data packets are transmitted from the first settop box through a network to a network storage server. The transmitted data packets include data encoding the program and the index data. The transmitted index data is stored in an index file in a memory device of the storage server, and the transmitted data encoding the program is stored in a digital media data file in the memory device of on the storage server. The index data in the index file are configured to provide locations of data in the stored digital media data file marking entry points for playing back the digital media data file.

Abstract: In general, in one aspect, the disclosure describes a method that includes accessing a first Internet Protocol datagram comprising a first Transmission Control Protocol segment representing a connection open request, determining a first hash result based, at least in part, on the Internet Protocol source and destination addresses of the Internet Protocol datagram, and the source and destination port numbers of the first Transmission Control Protocol segment. The method also includes accessing a first bucket of array elements from a first array based on at least a portion of the determined hash result where different array elements correspond to different respective open requests. The method also includes storing an entry for the open request in an array element of the bucket.

Abstract: A mechanism is provided to receive out-of-order packets and to use a table to place the out-of-order packets in a queue so that the packets are queued in order of a sequence in which the packets were sent.